St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-24
A FRIEND OF DAY.
He Says Some Good Words for
the Tyndafl Man and Asserts
that Church Ought to Have Re-
NAMED on the Bench

Cnc iynUaH Man ana Asserts
that Church Ought to Have Re-
manned on the Bench.
Special to The Globe.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23.-s'I was out
in Arizona when | read the GLOBES
Washington special giving an inter
view with Hon. NJ. II. Day." said Hon.
S. B. Bcvans. formerly special agent of
the land office at Watertown, as he
passed through Washington, a few days
ago.
''Well. what did you think of it?''
lit tickled me to death almost. You
know | was always one of days friends.
Your GLOBE files will show that some
time in June. 1856. | was in Washing
ton and predicted to you that Day
would be nominated for delegate. al
though at that time Mccormack and
Maratta seemed to be swinging along
for it. Well, | always believed that
Day was the natural leader of the Da-
kota Democracy, and had many a Bit
ter fight for him with those other Demo-
Gratis who opposed him. l had letter
from one of them telling me that Day
was fighting the president, fighting the
party and raising the devil generally
and that very day got a GLOBE with
the interview in it,
''Then it really pleased you, did it?'
''Better'n new pair of red-top boots
could please boy. | was afraid Day
had been driven to the wall and was
making a mistake; but when l read
that interview l saw that my friend was
as sturdy and reliable as ever. He is
for Cleveland or any other man the
Democratic party wants. He will
NEVE,P KICK nTFIe TIE rEc
They can't hit him hard enough to
knock him out. | always told you he
was a solid man and that he would
never be dOwned.'
''Who tried to down him?'
Well, i'll the first place there was n.
G. Ordway. He will always hate Day.
Day and he never got along. They call
each other raScals. don't know which
is right. l like Day. and side with him,
of course. But Ordway has money
plenty of it--and he can afford to pay
some of it out to hit Day. don't be-
lieve that 0rdway ever openly struck at
Day, but believe that one of his agents
went direct to Cleveland with statements
about Day which knocked him out for
the g0vernOrship. Ibelieve that Sparks
got his enmity to Day from the same
source; but, fortunately, that is all over
l see that Day and Sparks have come to
an understanding and are good friends.
That is as it should be. Democrats can
not afford to be fighting Democrats,
especially at the behest of another man,
and he Republican"
Are you on good terms with Gov.
church,"
81 used to be on excellent terms with
Judge Church, but
l HAVE NEVER SEEN THE GOVERNOR.
was sent out to Arizona before he
was promoted to that position. / am
pretty well posted, however, and am in
clined to believe that before his term is
closed all the little fights which are now
being made on him will be settled down
and it will be seen that Church was a
pretty good governor. However, | am
free to admit that would have rather
seen him remain on the bench. | be-
lieve that it would have been better for
him, and that he would have been
greatly benefited by so remaining. He
might have come to congress, or even to
the senate, some day, for he was popu-
lar wherever he went. But being gov
ernOr has made enemies for him, and
| they will always be after his scalp.
Consequently, for his own good and
future prosperity. should have been
glad to see him remain ON the bench.
Besides, look at what an opportunity
he had when the gOvernorShip was
offered to him, to make himself solid by
declining it and telling the president to
give it to some old-time territorial DEM
Oerat. / understand that he was ambi-
tiOuS, and all that sort of thing, but he
would have done better to stay OH the
bench.